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The Orange Box Review (continued)
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Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
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ESRB Rating: Mature
Platform(s): Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Date: 2008-09-13
A must have
This game is a must have for any FPS fan. Portal is awesome but very short. The only complaint I have is that I already owned HL2 and HL2 episode 1 and was forced to re-buy them with the Orange Box. You do get to give these extra copies to a friend, which I haven't done yet. Amazon was a lot cheaper than buying directly through Steam.
Date: 2008-09-13
Orange box
every game that it comes with is a great stand alone game, and to get them together for the price of one game is a realy great deal.
Date: 2008-09-11
Doesn't get much better than Half Life
I really enjoy playing the Half Life games. They really pull me into the game. I'm on the edge of my seat the whole time. And I find myself jumping every time a 'bad guy' creaps up on me and starts attacking (haha!). A lot of that emotion can be attributed to the soundtrack and acting.
As far as the other games, they're not bad...but I mainly bought this pack for the Half Lifes. It was still less than buying just those games separately.
Date: 2008-09-08
Best game in years
Dear reader, you need this game.
Do you need it for TF2? No, not really. TF2 is a fairly amusing online FPS, generally a worthy successor to Team Fortress for Quakeworld. But, really, I was tired of that game nearly a decade ago, and TF2 does little to rekindle my interest.
Do you need it for HL2? Maybe. I haven't even played it yet. I thought Half Life was a fairly decent PC game in its day, but nothing about the sequel (either episode!) has me excited. Still, it's nice that they give you this.
No, you do not need these things. The game you need is Portal, which is the best single player game in recent memory.
Setup - you're in a lab. You have a portal gun. You can create 2 portals - blue and orange - using this gun, and entering one portal will send you out the other portal (conserving any momentum you may have). You can stick these portals on many (but not all) surfaces throughout the game to progress through various experiments and traps.
That's it. That's the whole game. One gun. Two portals.
The concept is dead simple, but the puzzles can be deceptively complex. It's not rocket surgery, but sometimes you'll sit staring at a puzzle for a few seconds only to have a light go off in your head. When you're done, you have this moment of triumph, smugly thinking about how clever you just were.
Of course, you're not really the clever one here. Everybody who plays Portal feels the same way. Portal is the clever one.
Portal's smart simplicity goes beyond the gameplay, with an equally simple story that's told in a fascinating fashion. GladOS - your computerized captor - taunts you over the intercom the whole way, slowly revealing its psychopathic nature and ultimately pleading with you and promising you delicious cake. Even the end sequence is pure genius, as the credits roll in beautiful retro style, complete with the voice of GladOS taunting you in song.
Portal is not a long game. In fact, it's a really short game. But at $30, it makes the Orange Box the best value in gaming.
Buy it.
Date: 2008-09-07
Great game, great price
$30 is all I paid and it was worth evry penny.
Portal is a fun 1st person puzzle game. It's the reason I bought Orange Box. Team Fortress 2 is such an improvment on the 1st one! It's incredible fun. I'm not much in to Half Life 2 single player, but Ep 1 and Ep 2 do add more content to the wonderful Half Life 2 game. I already had Hald Life 2, so I was able to give the extra copy to a friend so they can enjoy the game as well! I really liked that, as I didn't want to waste money on a game I already had.
I don't see any reason not to buy Orange Box. You even get Peggle Extreme which is a HL themed (demo) version of Peggle. I liked it so much that I bought Peggle Deluxe from STEAM.
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